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The faerie qveen : The shepheards calendar : together with the other works of England's arch-poët (1611)

Author: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599; Lownes, Humphrey, d. 1629, printer; Lownes, Matthew, d. 1625, bookseller; Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916, former owner. IU-R; Riviere & Son, binder. IU-R
Subject: Knights and knighthood; Virtues
Publisher: [London] : Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes
Language: English
Call number: 5569221
Digitizing sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Book contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Collection: americana
Notes: Only The Faerie Queene and The Shepheards Calendar are paginated.

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Printer's name from STC

A reissue of the 1609 edition of 'The faerie queene', with a cancel title-page dated 1611, serving as a collective titlepage for the author's works

In this issue of the 'Faerie queen', stanza 1 on sig. B3r begins "Youg knight," and the catchword on R3r is "She". The colophon is dated 1609

'The second part of The faerie queene' has a separate titlepage dated 1609

Signatures: [pi] A-Z Aa-Hh Ii (-Ii4, blank?)

Issued with multiple other texts by Spenser

IU copy misbound; preliminary leaves A2-A5 of The Shepheards calendar (preface to Gabriel Harvey) bound bewtween leaves A1 and A2 of The faerie queen

Armorial bookplate on front pastedown: "E. libris Silvanus P Thompson Anno 1890."

Binder's stamp on front fold-down: "Bound by Riviere & Son"

With: A letter of the avthors ... 1611; The shepheards calender ... 1611 and Colin Clovts come home againe ... 1611

ESTC

Johnson, F.R. Crit. bib. of the works of Edmund Spenser

STC (2nd ed.)

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